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Slide Through 4.5 Billion Years of Human Evolution

Life on Earth began in one of the most mysterious processes in science, occurring roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the ...

Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains, research suggests

New findings, published in Nature, help answer the riddle of how vertebrates evolved the diverse array of brain cells that ...
New Scientist

Evolution of intelligence in our ancestors may have come at a cost

A timeline of genetic changes in millions of years of human evolution shows that variants linked to higher intelligence appeared most rapidly around 500,000 years ago, and were closely followed by ...
The Conversation

No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...

How your blood formed? Scientists say ancient 700-million-year-old single-celled ancestors may still live inside human blood

Scientists discover ancient single-celled ancestors still live on in human blood, revealing a 700-million-year evolutionary link hidden inside the immune system. Researchers at Kyoto University traced ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Through Much of Human History, Women Have Shaped Evolution Through Food Processing

Food processing has been a part of human adaptation since deep in the past. The softening and breaking down of food left its testimony on the human body. For example, the massive teeth of our early ...
Greenwich Time

No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kevin Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (THE CONVERSATION) We humans ...